Dreamworker

Let’s see what Gary has to say about this one:

 

This episode opens up with Gabby using Xena’s sword as a wood- cutter. We

think she is talking tough to someone, but she just swings the sword and

gets it stuck in a stump. Xena makes fun of her, and Gabby wants Xena to

teach her how to use it as a weapon, but Xena says no.

Xena oddly says don’t be too quick to go for your sword. Her instructions:

run, surrender, then run; let them fight each other, then run, finally talk

your way out of it.

Note: why should an evil person fight someone else when you’re the prey?

 

Xena advises wisdom over weapons. Once you kill, it changes

everything…everything.

Xena hears a noise. It is a bunch of thugs intent on robbing the girls. She

IMMEDIATELY  draws her sword and  tells them to give up, so I guess she has

to use wisdom sometime later.

 

The thugs attack, and when Xena has her sword knocked from her grip, Gabby

picks it up and gives a Xena-like war-cry, making the thugs look her way.

One says to attack the little one…she has a sword. I did not believe they

would just leave unarmed people alone.

Xena kills the leader with her dagger and the girls go to the town.

 

A priest of Morpheus watches the action and is glad Gabby did not kill. She

will be Morp’s bride after she loses her blood innocence.

 

Xena scolds Gabby for trying to help her. She does not ever want her help.

Xena goes to a store for a whetstone and Gabby says she is going shopping

for some salt pork. She goes, however, to a weapons shop to look around.

She sees a heavy sword, and then says she needs something more petite. The

owner holds up a dagger with two handles and calls it a “breast dagger.”

Gabby says, ‘how cute!” and loves it. The owner shows her how it is

carried…down the front of her blouse. She warned him not to get too cute,

tho.

 

In the other store, Xena sees a blind man named Elkton, who was once a

Mystic, one of Morph’s priests. Now he is reviled by everyone because once a

year at Solstice, the bad priests take a young girl and make her the bride

of  Morph…she has to die first.

 

Xena buys a halter for Elkton’s horse, since the storekeeper will not sell

anything to him. Outside, Gabby walks over to Xena with her chest puffed

out. Xena says ‘you look….BIGGER.” Gabby says it is the mountain air, and

then the dagger falls through her dress to the ground. Xena keeps it and

says that Gabby should not have a weapon.

Xena puts it down her own cleavage, and Gabby says that  “it’s not that your

own breasts aren’t dangerous enough…it’s a JOKE…you can laugh.”

 

Then Morph’s thugs attack. Xena tells Gabby to get on the horse, and when

the fighting is over, Gabby is gone---kidnapped.

Xena forces the merchant to tell her where the fortress is where Gabby was

taken. He says it is too far, and suggests that Elkton can help her.

 

At the fort, Gabby is told she must prove herself worthy…she must pass three

tests. She is dressed in a truly beautiful dress with cutout shoulders, plus

some nice decorations. It is a long dress, and her hair looks great.

 

Elkton senses Xena’s presence and thanks her for the halter. She tells him

about Gabby and he says that it will take too long for Xena to get

there…Gabby will have died by then. Xena can get there in a dream passage.

He tells her about the Mystics from before and how it has been corrupted. He

has Xena drink something, has her lie down, and splashes encama oil on her.

This stuff stops her body from dying in her dream vision. He says everything

is in her own mind…her dream is HER dream and she can make it any way she

wants. As she goes under, Elkton says he will protect her body.

Xena must defeat Morph in her own mind.

 

In a gauzy scene with burlap-looking hangings, Xena runs down a passage. She

sees a lot of the soldiers she used to know in battle. She wears really nice

clothes and has her hair pulled back. The soldiers want her to stay, but she

denies that she is a killer anymore.

 

She now sees a lot of her victims. She is given a sword to kill them again,

but she denies she is a killer and drops the sword, breaking it. The crowd

disappears. Morph is using Xena’s past to slow her down.

 

The priest knows Xena is there and sends his men to kill her and Elkton.

 

Gabby is given a sword and has to go thru a cloth tunnel. There are two men

who will kill her unless she kills them first. Gabby gets them to kill each

other by being in the middle, then ducking as they stab with their swords.

She is taken back to her room.

 

She now dreams. In her dream is Xena, and Xena says their dreams are

overlapping. Xena wants proof of it being Gabby, so Gabby says she had six

toes on her right foot as a baby, but it’s gone now. Xena says, “It must be

you!”

Xena tells her not to kill or she will be killed herself.

 

Gabby awakens to see the guards and says, “I don’t suppose you’re here to

take my breakfast order.” She is given another sword and sent out again. She

had a chance to kill the priest when she got his dagger, but she can’t do

it. This time she is at a fire pit, and she tosses the sword down it. She is

attacked by three men, and she gets them to allow the best fighter to attack

her first. One is killed in the fire, and the second kills the third. The

last guy grabs Gabby after throwing his dagger at her. It sticks in a

volcanic rock. As he goes to throw Gabby into the fire, the dagger loosens

up and it kills him.

 

Gabby was really cute in her expressions and appearance when she was getting

the thugs to decide who was the best fighter. She didn’t panic, but thought

it through.

He eyes looked dark in the lighting of the scene.

 

Thr priest tells her this time she has to kill or she will die for sure.

Xena is close…she is near the door to the fort. She sees herself with brown

eyes…the Dark Xena, who taunts her and says Xena can never change for the

better. “I am YOU!”

 

Dark Xena says Xena needs the key to get inside. She says Xena loves battle,

the killing, the REAL you. She says Xena is weak without her and stomps Xena

a lot. Xena realizes that she gets to kill her Dark Half. She says, “you’re

the key, and I control YOU!”

Gabby is trapped in a wooden triangular cage with spikes forcing her down

the trough. A sword lies on the floor at the end with a thug ready to kill

her.

 

Xena swings her Dark Half against the door and the door explodes. Xena jumps

thru and is in her regular battle gear. Gabby tosses the sword to Xena who

kills a lot of bad guys. The priest wanted his men to kill Xena and Gabby at

once. Xena uses the breast dagger to kill the last thug. Gabby punches the

priest and knocks him out cold.

 

“Punching is all right?”

“I’m impressed!”

 

At the end, Elkton regains his sight and is again a Mystic, as a good one

should be. They will now sacrifice corn instead of girls. He wishes Xena

sweet dreams.

 

One of the best endings of the six years is the following:

Xena and Gabby are sitting near a river. Gabby says she came close to

killing and it bothers her.

Xena says for Gabby to look at the water. She throws a stone in it and makes

ripples. She was like that once…calm, but then bad things happened in her

life. Gabby says if they wait long enough, the water will be calm again, but

Xena says the stone is still there and the river will always be changed.

 

The camera angles and music were the best and I loved it. Xena and Gabby

walk to Argo and Xena tries to make Gabby think she didn’t really mean what

she said, but she looks back wistfully at the water, knowing she was right.

 

This one scene made me love Xena and the show.